iMac 266 MHz

[andychrist]

By unchecking all the extra languages and such, leaving only Basic System and BSD Subsystem when you install OS X, you can get away with a boot volume that uses up only about 3 GB. So you will have another 3 GB remaining of free space, but as Eric pointed out, you will need some of that for virtual memory. Also OS X keeps adding to various caches, which can use up a goodly amount of MB. So you're not going to have a lot of room left over for iTunes, maybe a gig or so. Still, better than nothing.

[Ferdinand]

Originally Posted by andychrist

By unchecking all the extra languages and such, leaving only Basic System and BSD Subsystem when you install OS X, you can get away with a boot volume that uses up only about 3 GB. So you will have another 3 GB remaining of free space, but as Eric pointed out, you will need some of that for virtual memory. Also OS X keeps adding to various caches, which can use up a goodly amount of MB. So you're not going to have a lot of room left over for iTunes, maybe a gig or so. Still, better than nothing.

Thanks for the info. Now I'm just checking what my local Apple store has in terms of RAM etc...

[bobw]

Look HERE for memory.

Also check http://www.ramseeker.com for prices.

Apple's prices will probably be higher.

[andychrist]

Uhm, actually this is what you would want for your iMac, though I don't know if OWC ships to where you live. The important thing to know is that your machine has two slots for RAM, one on each side of the CPU card. One of them, I think the bottom slot, can only take the shorter, "low profile" chip, though I guess the short chip could fit into either slot. So if you could pick up a couple of those 256 MB jobies you'd be able to max out that iMac.

[Ferdinand]

Thanks for the info - I'll compare whats cheaper:
US RAM plus shipping or RAM from the Apple Store... but shipping alone is more than double than what the RAM costs at OWC, so we'll see, but thanks anyway!

[sinclair_tm]

turth be told, it can be done, but it will not be fun to fun os x on that imac. i had a buddy that at one time was the it guy for a company that had a bunch of imacs, and when the boss decided to have os x on all of them, my buddies nightmares began. with the ram maxed out, and the limitation on the hard drive size, os x 10.2 ran so slow that it was unuable most of the time, and there wasn't the room needed for the apps they needed to run. i personally would never run os x on anything slower than 350mhz, as then thats almost to slow for work. but if you want to do it, have fun.

[Ferdinand]

Follow up: I have 320 MB of RAM now, still on OS 9, but Internet & everything hooked up. I just clean installed OS X on some Macs and all apps (iLife etc...) is 7 GB, so no way of OS X on that iMac.